Courses - CMS Winter 2024

Listings for future quarters are tentative and subject to change. For the most up-to-date information, please consult the UW Time Schedule. For a listing of all courses potentially offered, see the Course Catalog.

Winter 2024

CMS 240 A: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies

MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm

SLN: 12513

Department Requirements Met:

Composition and W-courses

GE Requirements Met:

A critical approach to film and/or media texts and a workshop on writing papers in English. Topics vary. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 240 C: Writing in Cinema and Media Studies

MW 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 12515

Department Requirements Met:

Composition and W-courses

GE Requirements Met:

A critical approach to film and/or media texts and a workshop on writing papers in English. Topics vary. Offered: AWSpS.

CMS 270 A: Perspectives on Film: Introduction

TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12516

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to film form, style, and techniques. Examples from silent film and from contemporary film. Course equivalent to: BIS 261 and T FILM 201.

CMS 271 A: Perspectives on Film: Great Directors

TTh 8:30am - 10:20am

SLN: 12517

Department Requirements Met:

Pre-req to Declare Cinema & Media Studies Major

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to authorship in the cinema. The work of a major director or directors.

CMS 272 A: Perspectives on Film: Genre

TTh 1:30pm - 3:20pm

SLN: 12518

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to study of film and/or television genre. Literary, mythic, and historic aspects of film and/or television genre.

CMS 295 A: Study Abroad

to be arranged

SLN: 12519

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Equivalency for 200-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 301 A: Film and Media Studies: Analysis

TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 12521

Department Requirements Met:

Cinema & Media Studies Core

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to the analysis of film. Covers major aspects of cinematic form: mise en scene, framing and camera movement, editing, and sound and color. Considers how these elements are organized in traditional cinematic narrative and in alternative approaches.

CMS 303 A: Genre Studies

TTh 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12522

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Introduction to the history and significance of genre in film and/or television. May examine one or a selection of several genres, drawn from a list including, but not limited to, the western, melodrama, musical, thriller, sitcom, film noir, and documentary. Topics include form, ideology, authority, history, innovation, and parody. Offered: AWSp.

CMS 310 A: History of Film: 1895-1929

TTh 9:00am - 10:50am

SLN: 12523

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Film history from its beginnings in the 1890s through the golden era of silent film in the 1920s. Topics include the invention of major film techniques, the creation of Hollywood and the studios, and movements such as expressionism, constructivism, and surrealism.

CMS 311 A: History of Film: 1930-1959

TTh 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 12524

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Film history from the introduction of sound through the late 1950s. Focuses mostly on the golden age of the Hollywood studios and on alternative developments after World War II in Italy (Neo-Realism), France (the New Wave), and Japan.

CMS 315 A: History of New Media

MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm

SLN: 12525

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Study of new media histories and methodologies for research, with particular emphasis on new and emergent technologies such as the Internet and other digital forms. Specific media to be analyzed vary.

CMS 321 A: Oppositional Cinema/Media

WF 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12527

Department Requirements Met:

Cinema & Media Studies Core

GE Requirements Met:

Approaches film and related media as socially and politically engaged practice, with focus on screen media produced or received in "opposition" to dominant cultural and entertainment industry norms. Topics vary.

CMS 370 A: Basic Screenwriting

MW 2:30pm - 4:20pm

SLN: 12528

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Students develop collaborative critical and creative skills; studying screenwriting manuals and techniques; adapt stories for screenplays; and/or write synopses, treatments, and first acts of their own screenplays.

CMS 395 A: Study Abroad

to be arranged

SLN: 12529

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Equivalency for 300-level CMS courses taken on UW Study Abroad programs or direct exchanges.

CMS 397 A: Special Topics in Cinema and Media Studies

MW 10:30am - 12:20pm

SLN: 22129

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Varying topics relating to film in social contexts. Offered by resident or visiting faculty.

CMS 480 A: Senior Capstone

MW 12:30pm - 2:20pm

SLN: 12531

Department Requirements Met:

Capstone for Cinema

GE Requirements Met:

Capstone course in cinema and media studies. Includes research, creative, and/or reflective project. Topics vary. Prerequisite: CMS 301.

CMS 490 A: Directed Study or Research

to be arranged

SLN: 12532

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Individual study of topics in cinema and media studies by arrangement with the instructor and the Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media Department advising office.

CMS 491 A: Internship

to be arranged

SLN: 12533

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Supervised experience in local businesses and other agencies. Open to upper-division cinema and media studies majors with approval of departmental internship supervisor.

CMS 520 A: Methods and Issues in Cinema and Media Studies

MW 3:30pm - 5:20pm

SLN: 12534

Department Requirements Met:

GE Requirements Met:

Provides a basic grounding in the theory, history, and criticism of film and media studies, and introduces central debates, topics, and methods in the field.